Frank says in a dutch interview 1988 that 'yesterday I wrote a song called Dragon Master' which he says is a trash metal type of a song that Dweezil may play on.<br><br>Do we know anything else about this song?

Performances | Comments | Conceptual ContinuityFZ album(s) in which song has appeared:

* unreleased

Tour(s) in which song is known to have been performed (main source: FZShows, v. 7.1):

* April-June, 1988 (Europe) <soundcheck>

Comments:

From: Dirk Laforce

Dragonmaster: was performed at a soundcheck before the May 1, 1988 concert in Stockholm, Sweden (Mike Keneally's notes about 1988 soundcheck confirms this).

And here's Mike Keneally on 1988 Was A Million Years Ago (May 8, 1988):

I woke up the next day in Stockholm, and I'm about to run out of tape here I think. Just in case I'm not, I'll tell you that Vivian showed up the following morning in Stockholm, and at the soundcheck in Stockholm, we played another new chart with six series of chord changes [click!]

Continued, and a bunch of scales to accompany the chord changes. And a brand new heavy metal song called Dragonmaster, and Sofa, as usual, and Dupree's Paradise.

From Mike Keneally on Mike Keneally With Dweezil Zappa and Z:

None of the leftover "Shampoohorn" tracks were used for "MFP", and there were some really good leftovers, particularly the infamous "Dragonmaster" which has lyrics by Frank Zappa and music by Dweezil, and a great jam with Bozzio called "Therapy".

Dweezil Zappa interviewed in T'Mershi Duween #22 (May 8, 1991):

Can you tell me about 'Dragonmaster'? The infamous 'Dragonmaster'. Yeah, Frank wrote the lyrics to it, I guess, in Stockholm. I heard it in various bits and pieces, but never in an arrangement that I thought was quite appropriate for it. Frank's not up on his thrash metal, so he suggested to me one night "Why don't we do 'Dragonmaster'?" So I wrote basically the ugliest music that I could possibly write. It's meant to be done as a bit of a joke, really. It's a send up of speed metal and all that stuff. It's pretty good though.

Is it going to be released in the future? Maybe on the next record, but it's got such satanic lyrics I could get myself into trouble.

The lyrics:From Zonx (p. 634)

The dragon spreadsHis leather wings!His rancid breathSets fire to things!The pox-ed peasantsFear the sound--Destruction followsAll around!They cry in fear:The end is near!The King of Dragons'Burnin' here!

Screaming in hisMetal Tower,Voice commandingEvil Power--Causing flameTo rise and dance--(There goes England;Now it's France!Now it's time for Germany,With flames as far as we can see!)

Satan is theDragon Master:Bringer ofUntold disaster!Leather childrenBound in chains;Fever burningIn their brains--Hate the day;Hate the light--Dragon MasterRules the night

Performances | Comments | Conceptual ContinuityFZ album(s) in which song has appeared:

* unreleased

Tour(s) in which song is known to have been performed (main source: FZShows, v. 7.1):

* April-June, 1988 (Europe) <soundcheck>

Comments:

From: Dirk Laforce

Dragonmaster: was performed at a soundcheck before the May 1, 1988 concert in Stockholm, Sweden (Mike Keneally's notes about 1988 soundcheck confirms this).

And here's Mike Keneally on 1988 Was A Million Years Ago (May 8, 1988):

I woke up the next day in Stockholm, and I'm about to run out of tape here I think. Just in case I'm not, I'll tell you that Vivian showed up the following morning in Stockholm, and at the soundcheck in Stockholm, we played another new chart with six series of chord changes [click!]

Continued, and a bunch of scales to accompany the chord changes. And a brand new heavy metal song called Dragonmaster, and Sofa, as usual, and Dupree's Paradise.

From Mike Keneally on Mike Keneally With Dweezil Zappa and Z:

None of the leftover "Shampoohorn" tracks were used for "MFP", and there were some really good leftovers, particularly the infamous "Dragonmaster" which has lyrics by Frank Zappa and music by Dweezil, and a great jam with Bozzio called "Therapy".

Dweezil Zappa interviewed in T'Mershi Duween #22 (May 8, 1991):

Can you tell me about 'Dragonmaster'? The infamous 'Dragonmaster'. Yeah, Frank wrote the lyrics to it, I guess, in Stockholm. I heard it in various bits and pieces, but never in an arrangement that I thought was quite appropriate for it. Frank's not up on his thrash metal, so he suggested to me one night "Why don't we do 'Dragonmaster'?" So I wrote basically the ugliest music that I could possibly write. It's meant to be done as a bit of a joke, really. It's a send up of speed metal and all that stuff. It's pretty good though.

Is it going to be released in the future? Maybe on the next record, but it's got such satanic lyrics I could get myself into trouble.

The lyrics:From Zonx (p. 634)

The dragon spreadsHis leather wings!His rancid breathSets fire to things!The pox-ed peasantsFear the sound--Destruction followsAll around!They cry in fear:The end is near!The King of Dragons'Burnin' here!

Screaming in hisMetal Tower,Voice commandingEvil Power--Causing flameTo rise and dance--(There goes England;Now it's France!Now it's time for Germany,With flames as far as we can see!)

Satan is theDragon Master:Bringer ofUntold disaster!Leather childrenBound in chains;Fever burningIn their brains--Hate the day;Hate the light--Dragon MasterRules the night

The bootleg LP jacket illustrated above is, not surprisingly, from that May 1, 1988 show in Stockholm, Sweden, in which the secret word was of course - DRAGONMASTER (no, the soundcheck referred to is not on this recording).

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